In an interview with “CBS this Morning,” Bloomberg said that this and similar laws — which let you use deadly force against a would-be attacker if you feel threatened — work against community safety.

Bloomberg started the interview with a discussion of the federal deficit.

When the interview turned to the Martin case, he eventually pointed to the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the correlation between gun ownership and firearm fatalities as evidence that vigilantism doesn’t work.

“It doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “They don’t have the training. They don’t have the expertise. There is no oversight. That is the police department’s job.”